The Always Changing Shapes of Feux is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Debussy with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, rampant corporate plagiarism, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 17.245 billion Comrades are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Adytus. The average income tax rate is 99.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Feuxian economy, worth a remarkable 9,022 trillion Francoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 523,166 Francoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience, pet loving officers arrest citizens who don't give their dogs enough biscuits, children have nightmares about the eerie red glow and constant whirring of newly-installed machines, and it is firmly believed that cameras steal souls. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Feux's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Axiotarism.

Feux is ranked 328,625^th in the world and 17,487^th in Lazarus for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -17.59 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.